Brad Meltzer

Make sure I'm wearing it in my coffin.

Like people are wild.

And I said, that's the best hiding spot I've ever seen.

This is one of the most incredible stories I've ever been a part of.

When I was researching my book, I went to the morticians and I said, have you ever seen like a, could someone hide a secret message on their body, maybe in a tattoo?

And they said to me,

If you're on an airplane and the plane is about to go down and you write a quick note and then you eat that note that the liquids in your stomach will actually preserve the note upon the crash.

And I said, oh, that's a really good idea.

And they said to me, that's not an idea.

It really happened on 9-11.

One of the morticians who I was talking to was one of the people, you know, all the Dovers where not just our fallen soldiers go, but where the 9-11 victims went.

And they were working on one of the bodies there and they found a note that someone ate on 9-11.

They would not tell me what was in it, but that's what I used in the book.

And it was one of the most chilling, incredible stories ever.

from the firsthand person who did it and found it.

Of course.

This is someone who's smart, right?

This is someone who knows what they're doing.

And the thing that was amazing is on that day, they gave me other details as well that said,

You know, at one point they were working on someone and the FBI came racing in and was crowded around them.